Bodhirājakumārasutta

mn85:49.1 So, when I had stayed in Uruvelā as long as I pleased, I set out for Varanasi.

mn85:49.2 While I was traveling along the road between Gayā and Bodhgaya, the Ājīvaka ascetic Upaka saw me

mn85:49.3 and said,

mn85:49.4 ‘Reverend, your faculties are so very clear, and your complexion is pure and bright.

mn85:49.5 In whose name have you gone forth, reverend? Who is your Teacher? Whose teaching do you believe in?’

mn85:49.6 I replied to Upaka in verse:

mn85:49.7 ‘I am the vanquisher of all, the knower of all,

mn85:49.8 unsullied in the midst of all things.

mn85:49.9 I’ve given up all, freed in the ending of craving.

mn85:49.10 Since I know for myself, whose follower should I be?

mn85:49.11 I have no tutor.

mn85:49.12 There is no one like me.

mn85:49.13 In the world with its gods,

mn85:49.14 I have no rival.

mn85:49.15 For in this world, I am the perfected one;

mn85:49.16 I am the supreme Teacher.

mn85:49.17 I alone am fully awakened,

mn85:49.18 cooled, quenched.

mn85:49.19 I am going to the city of Kāsi

mn85:49.20 to roll forth the Wheel of Dhamma.

mn85:49.21 In this world that is so blind,

mn85:49.22 I’ll beat the drum of freedom from death!’

mn85:49.23 ‘According to what you claim, reverend, you ought to be the Infinite Victor.’

mn85:49.24 ‘The victors are those who, like me,

mn85:49.25 have reached the ending of defilements.

mn85:49.26 I have conquered bad qualities, Upaka—

mn85:49.27 that’s why I’m a victor.’

mn85:49.28 When I had spoken, Upaka said: ‘If you say so, reverend.’ Shaking his head, he took a wrong turn and left.